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Jon Anderson Jon Anderson is offline
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Default What bearings to use in Bridgeport spindles

On 8/4/2011 6:48 PM, RS at work wrote:

ABEC 9? That sounds to me like a bearing for a surface grinder. If
you got it cheap, you got a real deal. If memory serves a mill
usually uses something like an ABEC 3 (


IIRC, paid something like $125 for the pair. ABEC9 is more than I need
for sure, but it's not like I paid full rate for them.
Nothing like a like a little overkill...


Jon